Environmental groups say they distrust former New Mexico Rep. Steve Pearce’s commitments made during his Senate confirmation hearing to avoid selling off large swaths of federal land if he’s confirmed as Bureau of Land Management director.
Oil and gas industry groups, however, said the veteran of Permian Basin oil fields will be key to implementing President Donald Trump’s fossil fuels agenda on public lands across the West.
Pearce, a former oil field services company owner, supported federal land sales during his seven terms in Congress as a Republican lawmaker. But he ...
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